Moved from Installing Gentoo to Gentoo on Sparc.
silo.. sparc, so you may have better luck here._________________Please add [solved] to the initial post's subject line if you feel your problem is resolved. Help answer the unanswered

I've been working on sparc for some days (Blade 100). Try to get a kernel below 3.5MB, compile just the necessary drivers built-in (video, ide, networking) and leave others as modules. 2.6 Kernels can grow more, but 2.4.x are very limited._________________Santiago Núñez
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I've been working on sparc for some days (Blade 100). Try to get a kernel below 3.5MB, compile just the necessary drivers built-in (video, ide, networking) and leave others as modules. 2.6 Kernels can grow more, but 2.4.x are very limited.

This is no longer an issue in the later versions of SILO and the kernel on SPARC64. You can supposedly have a kernel up to 8MB in size now (though I can't say I've actually tried to do that )